Résidence Walferdange B took a 71-63 home win over Avanti Mondorf B in a game with several momentum swings. The result ended a three-game losing streak for RESB and moved them up to 4th place (+5), with MONB 5th (+2).
Walferdange started sharply. Liviu-Constantin Rusu (RESB) and Emanuele Santi (RESB) pushed the home side to a 13-0 lead, and RESB still had Mondorf under pressure at 23-12. Mondorf answered well through Yann Bartholomey (MONB), Tiago Da Silva Figueiredo (MONB) and Jeffrey Neyen (Season PPG: 7.60), coming all the way back to 28-28. RESB then finished the period better, with Michele Giordani, the 39-year-old Italian, scoring repeatedly inside for a 38-33 edge.
Early in the next phase, RESB rebuilt the gap to 44-33, matching its highest lead at that stage. Mondorf then produced one of the key runs of the game: 11 unanswered points turned 41-49 into a 52-49 MONB lead, with Da Silva Figueiredo, Neyen and Kim Majerus driving that stretch. Walferdange responded immediately. Tudor-Costin Maldarescu (RESB) and Giordani led an 8-0 reply to restore control at 57-52.
From there, coach Nicolae Predescu's team opened the last scoring phase with a 9-1 push to 66-53, again behind Rusu and Santi, the 50-year-old Emanuele Santi staying efficient around the basket. Mondorf still made it a close game, cutting the margin to 68-63 after Neyen's late three-pointer. The winner's decisive moment came from Razvan-Alexandru Purice (RESB), who buried the final three for 71-63.
Rusu led RESB with 19 points, Giordani added 17, and Santi had 13. For MONB, Da Silva Figueiredo scored 17, Bartholomey 14, Neyen 13 and Majerus 12.
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